JediMaster

They were comic relief, of course. I LOL'd when I saw Jetfire had a walking stick that was part of him with the nose gear at the end of it!

I think the extravagant sentence is because of parole laws. By making it so long that dictates the minimum amount of time he must serve before he can possibly get released for "good behavior"...because let's face it, it's hard to commit financial crimes in prison. Of course, the Daily Show had a hilarious bit on a new Ponzi scheme Madoff was going to setup in prison...

I think we all know who won the MPG battle...

Honestly, HD space is cheap and as stated getting some of these mods updated will be a major PITA. So I'm not going to trash any old installs unless an updated one comes out (like OTC) to 100% replace it. Just like I sometimes load up a classic FPS or RTS to play, so I also load up older flight sims, especially modded ones. There's room for all of them on my HD!

I loved Sam's parents and the Chevy twins (whatever their names were). Jetfire was cool, too. My wife said "Hey, we took pictures of that plane when we were there!" Tony Todd was great as the Fallen, too. It was like hearing Worf's brother again but dressed in metal.

Maybe they should feed him to the Sarlacc. "In its belly, you will learn a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over 1000 years..."

"...today in the news, many weaker citizens of the UK fled to Italy for no apparent reason..."

Weird Al only did 2 MJ songs in 25 years, so that's hardly excessive. He's also done 2 Star Wars songs. He's done 2 Billy Joel songs (one unreleased). He's done 2 Madonna songs, if you count the fact that his American Pie parody came out before her cover of it. Anyway, Thriller is the best by far because of what it did for the musical video form...it legitimized it and also made it separate from the song itself.

This is just a console port of Il-2 with some graphical updates and I'm sure many other things removed or simplified. I don't doubt it will be the most realistic WWII flying combat on the console, I just don't know how much that will actually be.

Where's the brand name of the card? That should tell you what it is. All that is there is the generic model name. I have that exact CPU and video--E8600 and 260/216--and it works great, although I don't have RoF. I haven't tried OC'ing yet, but I'm sure I can get something good out of it if need be. Right now 3.3GHz seems enough. I decided to go 2 cores right now because few games take advantage of 4, so faster 2 cores better bang for the same buck as 4 slower. The new core i7s however have this ability to auto OC themselves if you only run 1 or 2 cores, a truly brilliant idea. Still too pricey for me, though, so that will be my NEXT upgrade last next year or so.

It's amazing how intense some of those missions can be in SF2V. I'm also in a Rolling Thunder campaign, albeit with the F-105. I can't believe those guys used to do Iron Hand missions for real! Nothing but CBUs vs AAA units firing at you from all directions in a plane that rolls ok but has the pitch authority of a C-5...until you get hit when you get the roll rate of a C-5 and NO pitch authority.

F-16s were called lawn darts like 25 years ago. Way to stick with the times! How about that Rick Astley?

That's just it, though, the B-2s and F-22s aren't as expensive as claimed. If you add in the R&D costs then each plane costs that much more, but the more planes you make the cheaper they are. The other thing is in a limited war you DON'T need a lot of F-22s or B-2s, but what about extended ops like we're facing now? When you need to have X number of planes on station 24/7 for YEARS you wind up running into maintenance issues as you don't have enough to rotate home for enough time to overhaul them. The only way we have enough F-22s for that is if ALL F-22s are devoted to that one conflict leaving none in CONUS for defense or ops anywhere.

Unfortunately, every game mods differently depending on the coding used. Some are almost impossible to mod, some are very easy. We have such a tutorial and knowledge base here for the Thirdwire sims, but other than that I'm afraid not.

The Avenger as it appeared in the film is the way the early concepts of it appeared. The film remember was worked on mostly last year, with the finishing work this year. The real Avenger was only revealed in the last month or so, so how would they know what it looked like?

There's a message from HQ. HQ? What is it? Well, it's a big building with lots of generals in it, but that's not important right now.

We've been selling our planes for over 60 years now, including ones like the F-5 that were never really used by the US! The problem is that while things like effectiveness and reliability have improved over the decades, you still have a minimum number necessary for continuous ops at a high rate. I think we barely have enough F-22s for that right now. Give it 10 years and regular attrition means we will likely fall below that number. Early F-35s will definitely be more expensive than the F-22 is right now, taking I think at least 3 years before they become cheaper, so just how cost effective is cancellation anyway? We already spent the money to make the thing, now it's just parts and labor for any more.

Honestly, I was affected more by Ed McMahon's death than this. Quite simply Ed did more with his life in the past 15 years than MJ did. It's too bad for his kids (which he should never have had), but frankly he's been nothing more than another washed-up C-list celeb in the 21st century. He almost could be one of those "Oh, I thought he was dead already" people for all the positive things he's done. I own Thriller and listen to it regularly, but really I only listen to songs from Bad on occasion and nothing after that was worth even hearing once.

I just find it amusing that over 30 years after the F-15 and F-16 entered service they're still in production, but then these newer planes like the B-2 and F-22 they end production just as the plane enters service!!

So, does this mean the ThirdWire site will be down tomorrow AM and no one should freak out because of it?

One thing my wife and I learned the hard way--just as much as asking for too much can get you dropped, asking for too little means you can get hired and underpaid! After all, why pay you more if you're willing to work for less? Best to leave it unsaid!

Her suffering finally ended. She'd been declining for some time now.

The reversal of the wheelie is quite funny to cover up their continuity mistake in DaF, actually. It's amazing comparing Vegas then with now, too.

I know the first was called F-19 Stealth Fighter on the PC, I think it might have had a different name on other platforms. Yeah, "threading the needle" around radar detection circles, trying to evade the fighter patrol... The limited war was the best of the 3 ROEs (along with Cold War "don't shoot anything" and All-out War "kill em all") as you'd sneak to your target, blow it up, then bolt and try and hide while the hornet's nest you stirred up behind you tried to find you... The carrier ops was fictional, but it was fun. In fact, it was one of the most fun flight sims I ever had. I spent more time on F-19 in the 4 or so years I played it than I have on Falcon 4 in the decade since it came out! I only stopped playing F-19 because it got so dated and sims like Falcon 3 and the Aces series eclipsed it. I think the only modern bomber I ever enjoyed flying was the B-1...dropping all those Mk82s on an airbase and leveling it just rocks! I've flown a lot of the WWII bombers over the years, though, including a lot of time in MPS' old B-17 (not B-17 II in 2000 which I never got).

Oh, RB2 most certainly was a mess when it came out, but you could see what they attempted to get done. It took till the mega patch/rerelease as RB3D to make it the classic by fixing everything, yes, but all the pieces were there. My issue with RoF is that in the interest of generating a continual revenue stream they seem to have underdeveloped the initial release. I doubt Quake 3 would've been a mega hit if it had released with 1 player model carrying either a pistol or shotgun and 2 maps! I think a game should be complete on release, and if they want to release more stuff later in the form of extra planes, theaters/terrains, etc, that's fine. It shouldn't look like it needs it, though, and that's what the case is here. I think 4 flyable planes is the minimum number a WWI sim should have, 2 per side. This seems to me more like an attempt to be the iRacing of the flight sim world, and I neither want nor need such a thing and I know many others who feel the same way. I'm reminded of a bit they did on Mystery Science Theater 3000 back in the day, with the Mad Scientist's invention of "Johnny Long Torso--the action figure that is himself sold separately!" You start with the Action Torso, then you get the Action Head and Left and Right Arm and Left and Right Leg expansion packs (only $9.99 each). Then you get the Action Hands (left and right) and Action Feet (left and right) accessories (just $4.99 each!), the Ears Combo pack, the Action Eyes expansion... "Sold in one piece, this toy would go for $15, but sold this way he can cost up to hundreds of dollars!!"